YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.
YSK: Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.
We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...
Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.
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LMAO welcome to Firefox, the objectively better Browser. Might also use a custom search engine or DDG while at it.
Why the LMAO?
Firefox was and still is recently vulnerable to a massive zero day:
Mozilla is now using users for their new AI focus.
We need to support continuous competition in the browser market through enhanced support and integration of W3C standards. And at the most important, decoupling corporations from the browsers. At the moment, it seems Google is being actively defensive (see manifest v3) against that while Firefox (Mozilla corporate) is just sort of moot on the issue, more concerned with AI.
As soon as you think it’s “us vs them” and your browser is also owned by a for profit company, we’ve lost
There are Firefox forks like LibreWolf if you need to be a crybaby about Mozilla being a company that needs to pay their developers with the most user friendly way possible...
Also their AI is more of a play thing for some of their developers, they need to go with the flow at least a bit. Its also opt in where i am, idk if thats the case everywhere, but if not its opt out.
Furthermore, from your own article:
Mozilla has patched a critical security vulnerability in its Firefox Web browser that's being actively exploited in the wild
Oh noooo they patched it.
Keep being a crybaby and use Opera, for all i care you can even install yourself red star OS.
Still better than Chrome. Mozilla is not perfect, but in comparison to Google and its behavior they are saints.
was and still is
Me when I lie.
Unfortunately, firefox is becoming just as bad as chrome.
What?
Mozilla is mostly funded by google. With the current cookie laws from the eu to try and stop user tracking, they developed a new solution together.
Both chrome and firefox analyze your behaviour on your pc/phone/device. Then instead of giving websites the right ads, your browser tells every website you visit (with such ads) about you. You can google "privacy sandbox" if you'd like to know more.
So you better not be gay in a place like iraq, and be in need of using your school's website on a personal computer.
Hey, you dropped your nose.
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Mozilla is now focusing on the advertising business.
To reduce reliance on Google... With the goal to change how advertising works, less annoying, less asshole ads would benefit everyone.
It's not my browser's job to report to advertisers, period.
Its not doing that, you can use a fork if you want, or, and that would be the important part, put a condom over your internet cable before it enters the router, safety first.
Its not doing that
It literally is, with an opt-out feature.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution?as=u&utm_source=inproduct
Your lack of concern is not relevant to the desires of other users.
The data doesn't go to the advertiser - it's anonymized, encrypted, and sent to an aggregation service. The data isn't about you personally.
This is a much better solution than what's used for advertising today.
Where’s it go after aggregation? To advertisers.
I don’t care if it is better than the creepy shit advertisers do today because it doesn’t stop advertisers from continuing to do creepy shit.
All it does it give advertisers MORE data. It isn’t a replacement it is an addition.
The advertiser doesn't get your data directly. The data is aggregated using differential privacy so it's impossible for them to see any individual's data.
Good luck using the internet without having that data harvested by waaaaaay worse people. Again, just opt out.
Why are you talking about things you don't fully understand?
Trump level of confidence right here
Please put a condom on your ethernet cables
Unfortunately, your statement probably only deserves bothsides.jxl. Please attempt to honestly and objectively compare things, despite the personal inconvenience.
They make mistakes, but Firefox and Mozilla are obviously nowhere near as fucked up as Chrome and Google by any measure. And Firefox would only improve if people stopped running back to Chrome when something was not perfect.
As for that context you're missing, I'm counting them as equally bad because they run the same privacy violating approach to tracking user data and putting it where it shouldn't go
Maybe actually read or ask for context. I didn't include it in the comment because I figured that people who care enough to ask would ask
Pretend privacy or anti privacy
I'd say they both are bad except pretend privacy is much worse.
Unfortunate that people are fooled by Mozilla's pretend privacy promises.
It's not like we have great options here. Safari isn't supported on Windows or Linux. Opera has its own issues (like predatory loan apps) even if you're willing to pay for it. Crossing my fingers that Ladybird will work out, but it has a long way to go (though it did better than I thought it would when I tried it a few months back). Everything else is some variant of Chrome.
If you need to be on the web at all, Firefox still seems like the best of the shit pile.
There's also the Firefox forks like Zen and Floorp. It's still early days for Zen, but it's looking promising.
Not just that, not everyone who was listed in their open letters apparently agreed to or knew they were in them